By ADERONKE ADEYERI National affairs commentator, Jimi Disi was on Classic FM for his usual Front Page News analysis, a review of newspaper stories and said the following on Wednesday, June 10 edition: On the emergence of Bukola Saraki as Senate President when some APC members including Senators-elect were at the International Conference Center for […]

The Nollywood you know today is not the one that cropped up from Hilbert Ogungbe. Nollywood came about with the sales, marketing and multiplication of CDs. The Igbos got more involved by their investments. The Igbos did what they had to do, whether good or not, it has given us the platform.

The controversy tailing the election of leaders of the 8th National Assembly may have been consequent upon the mistakes made by the national leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC.

The most interesting happened when Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme popularly known as ‘’Aki and Pawpaw, visited me in Uganda. There was traffic standstill from the airport to the Nigerian Embassy to the extent that we had to call on the military to handle the crowd. The likes of Psquare, Danfo Drivers and Flavour were also invited for stage performance and they pulled a crowd of over 300,000 people beating that of Akon.

Apologies are in order, for a start. The office of Femi Adesina, veteran journalist and newly appointed spokesman for President Muhamadu Buhari, was merged with that of Akinwumi Adesina, newly elected President of the African Development Bank, on this page last week. The error is regretted.

“Everything about my life is serious. Of course it’s serious.” This is the response of superstar rapper Ice Prince to a question about his relationship with Ghanaian-French beauty Maima.

I met Akon at a night club in London and I remember him whispering into my ear, saying he was really impressed. I also met Jermaine Jackson at the African Music Awards in London and he said the same thing. To me, these were inspiring moments and I said I wanted to take this up. So I quit my job around 2010 and I moved back to Nigeria in 2011.”

Finally, it has happened. The much awaited but controversial wedding ceremony has taken place. They have now officially become man and wife. Even if not fully supported by law, they have been able to use the lee way out to their advantage. After all, he has been technically a free man in the last four years, plus. Now, the new Mr. and Mrs. can carry on unhindered, at least, as far as their conscience will allow them, probably.

On a day President Muhammadu Buhari received the final report of its transition committee on the handover, the All Progressives Congress APC made a volte face on the election of Senator Bukola Saraki as the President of the senate as it declared that he was duly elected.

Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the candidates of the APC and a majority of its National Assembly members-elect for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker…. The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual members.

Explaining why she dumped her banking job for acting, the rising actress who hails from Edo State said she wasn’t feeling fulfilled as a banker regardless of the lucrativeness of the job. “I used to be an Investment Banker. It was a good job; it paid well and I learnt a lot. But as time went on, there was this longing in my heart and I knew I wasn’t fulfilled regardless how much money I was making.

My baby was three months old when I hit the set of Fuji House of Commotion. You need to see my car. I used to drive one nice “tuketuke” BMW at the time. I had everything, from the baby bath, stove, food to everything in my car because I had to go with the baby. So my kids grew up getting used to my kind of work.”

I have always said, and if my colleagues had listened to me, we would have since severed from government funding because I believe football can fund itself. Right now a lot of money is coming in from qualifying for the World Cup, you are talking about $8million or $9million.You get $1million for preparing your team and once you get to the World Cup, even if you are eliminated from the first round you get $8million.

If I were a new governor, I will be asking the clubs a few questions when they arrive to ask for funds. I will ask to see their general turnover of income and cash flow and the balance sheet for last season and the first quarter of the current season; their business development template; their match day and ticketing revenue; share of broadcasting revenue; income from club generated sponsorships and commercials; income and profit from players sales and transfers.

IT was a new twist to Nigeria’s democratic landscape since the return to civilian rule in 1999 with two different parties producing a President of the Senate and the Deputy President of the Senate.